Commandant (The United Federation Marine Corps Book 8) - Plot & Excerpts
Vice Admiral Jeremy Mendez said, his voice low and in shock. The two men were alone in Ryck’s office as his Navy liaison broke the news. “My old ship, the Marseilles, was one of them,” the admiral continued. The Marines were on a clean sweep. Five operations with unqualified success. The Navy had not been so fortunate. First, there was their lack of ability to protect the GT-3 hub. Now, fourteen ships had been lost in a devastating ambush. This is one fucked up war, Ryck thought, putting a hand on the admiral’s shoulder. With the UAM, spearheaded by the Brotherhood, demanding that neither Navy use weapons of mass destruction on any planet, the loyalist and evolutionary Navies were somewhat hamstrung. With all their massive power, they couldn’t do much, and that had relegated this “war” to a handful of small Marine raids that while successful, did nothing to swing the tides between the two governments. The Navy was left more in a protective mode. Navies are led by fighting men, though, men who don’t shirk from battle and even seek it out. And when a 20-ship task force from Third Fleet started aggressively patrolling near the Corinthia, a loyalist planet in an otherwise evolutionary sector of space, the task force was ambushed, losing 14 ships. The loyalists lost five ships in one of the fiercest naval battles in recent years. Twenty-five thousand men lost. All for what was simple posturing. Ryck wasn’t sure how a naval force of equal capabilities could ambush another in open space, but now wasn’t the time to ask. Mendez was not in any shape to answer.
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